Battle of Nashville: Redoubt No. 3

Sylvester G. Hill, a Rhode Island native, had worked in Cincinnati lumber, joined the Gold Rush without profit and settled in Muscatine, Iowa, before he helped raise the 35th Iowa and became its colonel in 1862. On December 15, 1864, he was leading his brigade of Smith's XVI Corps toward the redoubts when artillery fire from Redoubt No. 2 killed him instantly at age 44. He was the highest-ranking Union officer killed in the Battle of Nashville and received a posthumous brevet as brigadier general. He is buried in Muscatine.

What the plaque says

Battle of Nashville 100 yards west was Redoubt No. 3 in the Confederate system of detached works beyond the main line. It was overrun by the enveloping attack of Wood's IV Corps from the northwest.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Fort Negley — 3.1 mi
  The largest inland stone fort of the Civil War, built in 1862 on St. Cloud Hill by more than 2,700 conscripted Black laborers, hundreds of whom died.
• National Museum of African American Music — 3.9 mi
  A downtown Nashville museum, opened in 2021, tracing gospel, blues, jazz, rhythm and blues and hip-hop through Black history from 1619 to 2016.
• Civil Rights Room at the Nashville Public Library — 3.9 mi
  A room in the downtown library with a circular lunch counter, a timeline and oral histories of the 1960 Nashville sit-ins, a few blocks from the stores where they began.
• Ryman Auditorium — 3.9 mi
  The 1892 brick tabernacle in downtown Nashville that was the Grand Ole Opry's home from 1943 to 1974, now a National Historic Landmark and working concert hall.

More markers nearby

• Battle of Nashville: Redoubt No. 4 — 0.8 mi
• Confederate Defenses — 0.9 mi
• Homes of David Lipscomb — 0.9 mi
• Assault on Montgomery Hill — 1.0 mi